Leader who could not put Humpty together again; After delivering the death...

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  April 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Boris N Yeltsin, the bearish...shattered the Soviet Union and then served...within weeks; the Soviet Union within months...and contrite Yeltsin went on television...downfall of the Soviet Union, had met Yeltsin in 1992. No American...

Kremlin Reacts Mildly to Duma Vote on Reviving Soviet Union

Xinhua English Newswire;  March 15, 1996 ;     350 words ......preservation of the Soviet Union. At the end of 1991, Yeltsin and the then-leaders...disintegration of the Soviet Union had been inevitable, Yeltsin said, adding that...vote to restore the Soviet Union. Yeltsin's press secretary...

Yeltsin's army. (coup attempt in Soviet Union) (editorial)

The Economist (US);  August 24, 1991 ;     700+ words ......spectre of the cold-war Soviet Union returned to grip...doubted that the Soviet Union had changed in many...nobody-not even Boris Yeltsin or the brave men...wrench the modern Soviet Union out of the grip of...that still beset the Soviet Union. The first task ...

Gorbachev says he'll resign if Soviet Union crumbles Others try to control...

The Boston Globe;  August 28, 1991 ;     700+ words ......that are leaving the Soviet Union and the Western countries...But with events in the Soviet Union threatening to plunge...Russian President Boris Yeltsin was quoted as saying...on the telephone with Yeltsin. A Ukrainian government...Shcherbak, said that Yeltsin had indicated ...

SOVIET UNION'S FUTURE LIES WITH THE REFORMERS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 23, 1991 ;     505 words ......reality. Mr. Yeltsin, long a popular figure in the Soviet Union, emerged as...coup. In the Soviet Union as well as...world, Mr. Yeltsin is viewed as...hands of Mr. Yeltsin, his old arch-rival. The Soviet Union's future lies...

Boris Yeltsin unchained the Soviet Union

Courier News (Elgin, IL);  May 1, 2007 ;     480 words ......collapse of the Soviet Union and its replacement...history. Boris Yeltsin was at the center...still reformable. Yeltsin recognized that the Soviet Union's Marxism-Leninism...thereafter, so did the Soviet Union. To Yeltsin's credit, he saw...

Soviet Union to End Dec. 31, Yeltsin Aide Says

The Washington Post;  December 18, 1991 ;     700+ words ......Kremlin, and the Soviet Union will cease to exist...President Boris Yeltsin said today after...Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin, crediting Gorbachev...without the former Soviet Union by January," the...take such a step. Yeltsin, Kravchuk and Byelorussian...days ago that the ...

Freedom is a victor in the Soviet Union

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 22, 1991 ;     507 words ......peoples of the Soviet Union, for Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail...home in the Soviet Union as he was abroad...least a while by Yeltsin, for whom Gorbachev...make up the Soviet Union. They may be...together, and Yeltsin, an advocate...

The Yeltsin factor; how the reformers in the Soviet Union might still...

The Economist (US);  January 26, 1991 ;     700+ words ......judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside...president, Boris Yeltsin, to stand by...Even so, Mr Yeltsin seems determined...much support Mr Yeltsin can muster. The sort of Soviet Union we can do business...the future, Mr Yeltsin's Russia will...

Going Yeltsin's way. (Boris Yeltsin's alternative ideas for the Soviet...

The Economist (US);  March 23, 1991 ;     700+ words ......way forward for the Soviet Union, as Mikhail Gorbachev...Russian republic, Boris Yeltsin. Mr Yeltsin himself may not be...succeed Mr Gorbachev-the Soviet Union has no good way to...Soviet Union is going Yeltsin's way. None too soon...increasingly doubtful that ...

YELTSIN: RUSSIA'S NEIGHBORS NEED NOT FEAR PRESIDENT SAYS RUSSIA'S...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 17, 1996 ;     260 words ......President Boris Yeltsin sought to reassure...to restore the Soviet Union. Yeltsin ordered the Foreign...presidential election.'' Yeltsin was a key figure...that hastened the Soviet Union's demise, and the...breakup of the Soviet Union into 15 nations...Soviet ...

Yeltsin says he has no regrets about the end of the Soviet Union

AP Worldstream;  June 12, 2002 ;     322 words ......President Boris Yeltsin said in an interview...breakup of the Soviet Union, saying it was...dissolution of the Soviet Union. Yeltsin was chairman of...collapse of the Soviet Union, and many blame Yeltsin for it. This is...

A NEW RUSSIA LIMPS AWAY FROM DESPOTISM YELTSIN BESTS GORBACHEV IN A POWER...

The Virginian Pilot;  December 26, 1999 ;     596 words ......be fun. In 1987, Yeltsin resigned his party...not reforming the Soviet Union fast enough. Gorbachev...unpopular in the party, Yeltsin sensed the Soviet Union's growing democratization...still part of the Soviet Union. In June 1991, Yeltsin, who had ceased...

AN HISTORIC STEP TOWARD FREEDOM IN SOVIET UNION

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 22, 1991 ;     625 words ......TOWARD FREEDOM IN SOVIET UNION Date: 08-22-1991...question that the Soviet Union's experiment in democracy...to Moscow. Boris Yeltsin, the president of...doubt about it. The Soviet Union today is different...Gorbachev and Mr. Yeltsin, bitter rivals all...his standing in ...

EDITORIAL: Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007: Defiance of military coup in 1991...

Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  April 24, 2007 ;     553 words ...Apr. 24--Boris Yeltsin, who died yesterday at age 76, should be remembered...greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Yeltsin achieved power, not greatness, as a regional Communist...to oppose a military coup by hard-line communists. Yeltsin's defiance emboldened tens of thousands of ...